Submitting your manuscript to Libraro is an exciting step, and we want to ensure you understand what happens next. This article explains the review and moderation process your work goes through after submission, including how we handle originality checks, what to expect if your manuscript is flagged, and when approved entries will become visible on the platform.
What Happens After You Submit Your Manuscript
After submitting your manuscript, it will not appear on your dashboard immediately. All submissions go through a standard review process in line with our Terms & Conditions to ensure they meet contest and platform requirements.
During this process, we check for originality, AI-generated content, and hate speech to maintain the integrity and fairness of the competition. The review may take up to one week to complete.
Please note that manuscripts are not automatically rejected during this time. Each submission is reviewed with human oversight, and if any clarification is required, our team will contact you before the contest begins.
When Approved Manuscripts Will Be Visible
All approved manuscripts will appear on the platform feed on 19 February when the Reader Engagement Prize officially begins.
This approach ensures that:
All moderation is completed before launch.
Every author’s work is released at the same time.
Readers can start engaging with submissions fairly and simultaneously.
If you would like to confirm that your manuscript has been successfully submitted to the contest, please refer to our related article:
[How to Check If Your Manuscript Has Been Submitted to the Competition]
Our Commitment to Originality
At Libraro, we are committed to ensuring that all works published on our platform are original and created by the author. To protect creative integrity, we do not allow content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. All manuscripts must be your own original work.
Why Manuscripts May Be Rejected
Our system uses a combination of automated and manual checks (including tools such as Originality.ai) to identify when content may have been generated using AI.
If your manuscript is flagged and confirmed as non-compliant with our originality policy, it will be rejected.
If Your Manuscript Is Rejected
If your manuscript is rejected, you will receive an email notification with the following details:
A clear explanation of the rejection.
A direct link to the Rejection Guidelines in our Help Centre.
Rejected manuscripts cannot be resubmitted unless they have been revised to meet Libraro’s policy on original authorship.
How to Reduce False Positive Within our Content Checks
The text outlayed in this article was taken from the service provider Originality.ai from the article directly linked below:
Lowering Your False Positive Rate
You can lower your rate of false positives by:
Making sure that no tools were used to generate, edit, or plan your content. Every tool is powered by AI and will increase our AI score. Even if you rewrite content, or planned the content yourself, or an AI only did the editing... it will still raise our AI score
Avoiding software like Grammarly, ChatGPT, Quillbot, Microsoft Word Editor, or other tools
Scanning as much of the content as possible (instead of only scanning a paragraph, or the intro, or conclusion, or etc)
Avoiding formulaic content. (intros, conclusions, recipes, works cited pages)
Using our Chrome extension to "watch a writer write". It allows you to see the edit history of a Google Doc and run scans at each point along the edit history. You can see how the AI score changes over time
The most common false positives are caused by:
Tool usage
Short content
Formulaic content
Public domain works
Academic content"
If You Believe Your Manuscript Was Unfairly Rejected
If you feel your manuscript was incorrectly rejected, you can request an internal review.
To do this:
Email support@libraro.com with details of your case.
Our team will conduct a review of your flagged submission.
If an error or abnormality is found, we will contact you directly with the next steps.
If no error is identified, Libraro reserves the right to uphold the rejection. In these cases, we may not issue a further response.
These measures are in place to ensure fairness, transparency, and trust for all authors using Libraro. By submitting your work, you confirm that it is entirely your own creation and not generated by AI.